Guldfod Practice writing P for personification or N for hyperbole. Then discuss the meaning of the figure of speech
Read the passage. Underline each figure of speech, and identify it by
with a partners
By the time Mia's parents set up the tent, it was raining. Mia
Nint
As you read, ask
yourself
"Do any verbs show a
nonliving thing doing
something a person
can do?
"Do any adjectives give
human-like qualities to
nonliving things?"
"Do any sentences
exaggerate the truth?"
would never forgive them for this trip! Her legs were still
complaining from the climb, and the mean rain was punishing her
family for camping in October,
The next morning, though, Mia woke up refreshed. She
thought, "I must have slept for days!" Outside the tent, the sun
smiled through the leafy trees.
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Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.